'No changes to our logging or privacy policies' — Windscribe reassures users on Canada's Bill C-22…

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  • Windscribe said Bill C-22 won't change its privacy policies
  • The bill would require service providers to retain user metadata
  • Canada's Senate is set to discuss Bill C-22 in September

A Reddit user recently put a blunt question to Windscribe: is paying for a Canada-based VPN a privacy problem, given the surveillance bill working its way through Parliament?

The company's official support account answered without hedging. Windscribe will keep operating exactly as it has, the account said, with "no changes to our logging or privacy policies".

Canada is bringing in laws that genuinely complicate things for the company, Windscribe added, but that is internal work to sort out rather than something subscribers should expect to feel.

It's a calmer message than the one Windscribe was broadcasting in May, when it said it would sooner relocate its headquarters than start logging users. That put it alongside Signal and NordVPN,...

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